Water Days

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN GALVANISES HER FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A FRENZY OF QUESTIONS AND UNLIKELY DISCOVERIES.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At the cusp of the millennium in a fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangalore Kannada Malayalam Tamil Telugu and Hindi form a buzzing background of muted conversations as speculation mounts about what really happened that night when a girl barely out of her teens died. Raghavendra erstwhile security guard dreaming of setting up his own grocery store finds himself unexpectedly in the middle of it all tasked with the responsibility of finding out the truth by his wife Poornima.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And every morning for the thirteen days that it takes for the soul to find liberation and the story its resolution the women gather at the water taps before sunrise collecting water and stories ...</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sundar Sarukkai's (www.sundarsarukkai.in) lifelong search for the hidden languages of nature humans and societies has led to books articles plays and novels. His previous novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Following a Prayer</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was chosen by The Telegraph and Mint in their year-end list of 2023.</span></p>